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Gingerbread Baby Final Activity #11
Students are read the story "Gingerbread Baby". They write their own letter to the author telling her about their favorite part. They ask questions and hopefully they will receive the answers from her as well.
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Pablita Velarde: A Biography
Students listen to Pablita Velarde: Painting Her People, a story by Marcella J. Rich. They discuss the book and why they think the author wrote it. They make a concept map of their ideas using Kidspiration software.
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Bookmaking
Students make and assemble parts of a book, read and respond to classmates' work, read aloud from their own book of poetry. They use the writing process and written language skills, participation in fine arts experiences, appropriate and...
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Far and Near
Students, after listening to A Country Far Away, by Nigel Gray, draw a picture and write a sentence showing how his or her life is similar to that of children in Africa.
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Spiders Are Fun
Students study facts about spiders using a number of literary forms, including stories, poems, and songs. They work with consonant sounds by matching pictures with the beginning consonant sounds. They design art projects that emphasize...
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"Secret Soup!"
First graders, after studying vegetables and fruits for two weeks, practice putting something that we have already done, in order. They write a story about the vegetable soup we made. Remembering, 1st graders artistically draw pictures...
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Just a Little Bit
Second graders read the book, "Just a Little Bit" and work in groups weighing the same object with a scale. They then get a different unit of measurement, like paper clips, cotton balls, washers, or pennies and then figure out and record...
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African Rain Forests
Students draw a picture and label the layers of a rain forest in Africa.
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What's Inside? Reading Text Using a Question and Answer Format
Students use a variety of print media to copy words from. They listen for facts while the teacher reads to them. They listen to a book about eggs and write a book of their own.
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GEOBOP State Standards
Third graders write a report and draw a picture of the state of their choice. They use the internet to research their state's flower and write a paragraph about it. They also practiced inserting a picture from the internet to a word...
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Prediction Using On-Line Stories!
Fifth graders analyze the elements of an online story. In this online story instructional activity, 5th graders analyze the title, pictures, and other information for an online story. Students predict what the text is about and complete...
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B is for Bowling Green
Third graders identify important places in Bowling Green and list facts about those places. They write complete, varied sentences using capitals and punctuation correctly and also use the Writing Process. As a final project, a...
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Which Number is Greater?
Students draw pictures of two digit numbers to identify the greater value. In this math activity, students plot two digit numbers on a number line and identify the greatest or lesser value. Students use the greater than and less than...
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Guidebook
Students create a book about plants they observe after identifying and researching them.
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Giants of the Past
Learners listen to the book, The Mysterious Giant of Barletta, and create paper sculptures based on ancient Greek and Roman statues in the Getty Museum. They write narrative stories told from the viewpoints of their sculptures.
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Life on a Farm
Students take a field trip to a farm or observe pictures of farms and animals in the classroom. They paint a mural of a farm setting with animals. They practice phonetic skills with farm stories and songs. They explain how milk becomes...
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A Day During Colonial Times
Fifth graders participate in read aloud activities of three books about life in Colonial times. They compare their life to that of children of Colonial times using a Venn diagram. They draw a picture and write about what a day in the...
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Where Am I? Determining Relative Location
Students use position words to describe where their teacher is sitting and read a story that makes use of position words. In this spatial lesson, students make a stick puppet and play Simon Says focusing on using position words in the...
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Focus Story: The Mitten
Students explore language arts by analyzing a story with their classmates. In this poetry identification lesson, students read the book The Mittens and identify the characters, plot and settings in the story. Students recite poems about...
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A Voyage to West Africa: The Gambia
Fourth graders illustrate and provide a caption for a picture that compares and contrasts the United States to Gambia. They questions about similarities and differences that they saw between the book, Boundless Grace, Gambia and the...
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Tools Make A Difference
Students compare and contrast older and newer types and designs of tools, and examine how the change in tools affected life along the river in the book, "A River Ran Wild." They classify the tools for cooking, hunting, farming, and...
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Domains Portrayed and Invaded
Students examine the art and work of Carl Runguis. After reading a play, they discuss how an artist portrays his feelings about a topic in his work. They view the preplay and write an essay reflecting on their experiences. They also...
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Reading Response Journal
In this reading response worksheet, students complete the journal activity including the title, author, number of pages, their opinion about the book, and their favorite part of the book. Students also draw a picture of their favorite part.
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Travel Tags, Dr. Seuss
In this bookmarks learning exercise, learners utilize a metal ring and a hole punch to write their name on each travel tag along with the title and author of the book they read and where it took place. Students draw a picture on the back...